<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 19, 2008 12:21 AM, baby liz <<a href="mailto:babyliz_leia@yahoo.com">babyliz_leia@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hie..</div>
<div> I would like to know if GrADS can actually read binary codes and display them? I have this TOMS satellite data in binary codes. Can I just use GrADS to read the data and display it?</div>
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<div>GrADS can read binary files, provided they are written in a particular way. Your best bet is to study the documentation:</div>
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<div> <a href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/aboutgriddeddata.html">http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/aboutgriddeddata.html</a></div>
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<div>As for reading TOMS EarthProbe aerosol index data, are you sure you have "binary files"? The documentation:</div>
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<div> <a href="ftp://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/eptoms/data/1README">ftp://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/eptoms/data/1README</a></div>
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<div>refers to ASCII formatted files. In this case, they will need to be reformated in order to be read by GrADS. </div>
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<div> Arlindo</div>
<div><br>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a> </div>